Time to Quit Your Job?

Despite what you may have heard, the race isn't over. Doesn't matter though, the economy's the thing. In the business world, as we noted on Wednesday, it's created a frenzied complacency. This point was hammered home, poignantly, by business professor Rita McGrath. Recently she was at a company running a two-day seminar on growth. A quarter of her group didn't show up for day 2; there had been layoffs.

Where John Kotter sees false urgency, McGrath is seeing deer-in-the-headlights leadership. "Instead of absorbing uncertainty for their people, leaders are letting their own feelings of being out of control and not being able to predict the future dominate their communications," she writes.